The other day, my wife and I took our girls out on a couple of wave-runners. Nicole took the older two, which left me and the youngest. Reese kept begging to find some waves to jump over…“go faster!”

There’s a bird nest right outside my window. It’s fun to see it nesting and feeding its babies. It’s also a pretty dumb bird. It keeps bumping into our window and flapping at it. I’m told that behavior comes from seeing its own reflection and thinking it’s an enemy bird.

It happened 10 years ago, but it still makes me smile…and then I cringe… For a few years, I oversaw our church’s 12-step program. It worked out great. Nicole was working evenings at the time, and we had a volunteer cooking each week, so I had a free meal.

How do you know someone’s not on socials anymore? Don’t worry they’ll tell you, like an airport announcing their departure. And if you run into them, you’ll get a Ted Talk on why they left. Then you’ll see them pop back on a month later…

Sunday night before bed, I prayed for my girls. I say the same thing in my bedtime prayer each night with them: “Father, thank you that I get to be their dad.” But Sunday night, my voice cracked out of emotion.

Legend has it that it was 1,755 years ago today… In a cell somewhere under the streets of Rome’s capitol, a pastor drinks in his last morning on earth. The bars on the cell door a reminder of his traitorous actions.

It’s so often missed in Scripture. The night before Jesus overturned the tables in the temple—He popped in to take a look around...Mark writes—He…went into the temple. And when he had looked around at...

This may not surprise you, I was in counseling for a couple of years. I loved my counselor, he was tough on me—best of all he helped me get past the need for his help. Candidly though, in the last few weeks...

I recently saw a viral post of a woman mourning her family’s last 15 years. Apparently her husband had 14 different jobs in the last 15 years. I share her grief, that’s hard on a family (yet somewhat impressive to be hired that many times). 14 jobs in 15 years, that’s really tough. Yet to me, the saddest part...

I sat down to write an election email centered around the verse “Those who are righteous will be long remembered. They do not fear bad news…” (Psalm 112:6b-7a). Some of us are about to rejoice. Some of us are about to mourn. May none of us...